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    Posted by Christoph posts: 25

    Does anyone have an idea why the search module displays the contents of all languages on the results page?

    Under the Multilingual Settings I have set the following additional checkboxes:
    - Synchronize page and site language
    - Restrict search language by default
    Search02

    I created an English (TEST-EN) and a German (TEST-DE) page and put the search module and the language switch in the left menu area.
    If I enter "TEST" in the search module, both pages will be found, both as suggestions and on the result page itself.
    Search01
    Search03
    If I search directly from the results page, only the page of the current language will be found.

    At the respective address in the browser you can see that the language filter is not taken into account in the search module.

    Search module:
    http://demo.tiki.org/21x/tiki-searchindex.php?filter%7Econtent=test&search=Search

    Search page:
    http://demo.tiki.org/21x/tiki-searchindex.php?filter%7Econtent=test&sort_mode=score_ndesc&filter%7Elanguage=en&filter%7Elanguage_unspecified=1

    Do I overlook an additional option to be set in or for the search module?

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    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France
    Christoph wrote:

    - Restrict search language by default

    I created an English (TEST-EN) and a German (TEST-DE) page and put the search module and the language switch in the left menu area.


    Hello,

    Naming EN and DE them is not enough.
    Did you assign the corresponding language to the page ? (edit->properties)

    More related possibilities may be around the lack of set of translation for those pages.
    By default, if there is no set of translation (test-en in english and test-en in german) the available version is displayed and as "test" exist in both name it may induce such confusion. (the hyphen could be considered as space)

    Hope to have more time to answer you next comment. 😉

    Posted by Christoph posts: 25
    Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist wrote:

    Hello,

    Naming EN and DE them is not enough.
    Did you assign the corresponding language to the page ? (edit-properties)


    Thank you for your answer
    The test pages had set the respective language and the title was chosen simply to show the problem.
    In our wiki we have program functions whose page titles in different languages partly have the same content that you would search for.

    Problem seems to be the missing language parameter when running the search via the search widget:
    &filter~language=en&filter~language_unspecified=1

    In the search module there is the field "Additional filters".
    But even if I add the parameters there, it has no effect on the search result:
    Search001
    Search002
    Search003

    And even if it would work I would have to display different search widgets depending on the language.

    search module (with additional filters):
    http://demo.tiki.org/21x/tiki-searchindex.php?filter%7Econtent=tikiwiki&filter%7Etype%5B%5D=wiki+page&filter%7Efilter%7Elanguage=en&filter%7Efilter%7Elanguage_unspecified=1&search=Search

    search page:
    http://demo.tiki.org/21x/tiki-searchindex.php?filter%7Econtent=tikiwiki&sort_mode=score_ndesc&filter%7Etype%5B%5D=wiki+page&filter%7Elanguage=en&filter%7Elanguage_unspecified=1

    Do I have to embed the filter differently?
    Is it possible to add the parameter directly in the source code of the search module?


    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France
    Christoph wrote:

    At the respective address in the browser you can see that the language filter is not taken into account in the search module.

    Search module:
    http://demo.tiki.org/21x/tiki-searchindex.php?filter%7Econtent=test&search=Search

    Search page:
    http://demo.tiki.org/21x/tiki-searchindex.php?filter%7Econtent=test&sort_mode=score_ndesc&filter%7Elanguage=en&filter%7Elanguage_unspecified=1

    Do I overlook an additional option to be set in or for the search module?


    Mmm...
    1/ Post a bug report at dev.tiki.org and wait for someone to fix it.

    2/ Again I didn’t test but I understand from your post that the "Search page" do the job while the "Search module" don’t.
    If this is correct you should be able to create your own module (custom module) using the "Search page" template code.

    3/ Or... you could hire a consultant at : https://tiki.org/consultants to have it fixed for you.

    4/ Use a customSearch module ?

    Good luck


    Posted by Christoph posts: 25

    Many thanks for the answers and suggestions.
    I have now created separate search modules for both languages, this can be made visible in the options only for single languages.
    There I also set the additional filters without prefix "filter~" for the respective language (then they work as hoped).

    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France
    Christoph wrote:

    Many thanks for the answers and suggestions.
    I have now created separate search modules for both languages, this can be made visible in the options only for single languages.
    There I also set the additional filters without prefix "filter~" for the respective language (then they work as hoped).


    Always happy to read my answers were useful. ?
    While it could have been simpler without the issue you described, I found handy having duplicate "specialised" modules especially in multilingual for filtering and positioning. (I often need right to left)